TempoPeek

Madonna · Boy Toy

Rescue Me

Rescue Me is in B flat minor at 117.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

118 BPM · Moderatomedian of 144 analyses · 117.9–118 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ minor5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
144people who ran the extractor
One beat
508.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.29dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.893Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.33Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in B flat minor, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 117.9 BPM one beat lasts 508.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 127.2 ms and a dotted eighth 381.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59 BPM, counted twice as fast 235.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.29 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.893 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in B flat minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with B♭ minor

Each of these differs from B♭ minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 118 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42035.60.49
Half note21017.80.98
Dotted quarter1.5763.41.31
Quarter note (one beat)1508.91.97
Quarter triplet0.667339.32.95
Dotted eighth0.75381.72.62
Eighth note0.5254.53.93
Eighth triplet0.333169.65.9
Dotted sixteenth0.375190.85.24
Sixteenth note0.25127.27.86
Sixteenth triplet0.16784.811.79
Thirty-second note0.12563.615.72

Half time 59 BPM · double time 235.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (508.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Rescue MeFontella BassD major123BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Thorn WithinMetallicaB♭ minor118BPM
  2. Ain’t It FunGuns N’ RosesB♭ minor117BPM
  3. Axel FHarold FaltermeyerB♭ minor117BPM
  4. MusiqueDaft PunkB♭ minor117BPM
  5. I’m Outta LoveAnastaciaB♭ minor119BPM
  6. VogueMadonnaB♭ minor116BPM
  7. Over and OverMadonnaB♭ minor116BPM
  8. Heavy Metal LoverLady GagaB♭ minor116BPM
  9. Like It or NotMadonnaB♭ minor120BPM
  10. Error404ApparatB♭ minor120BPM

Recordings in B flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 118 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat minorAll songs at 118 BPMB♭ minor at 110–119 BPMMadonna

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4a39104e-4d89-4c08-b908-a47f7aa7d3a6.